My BX750MI-GR has saved my precious data on two occasions. Earlier this year, my seven year old, well used waffle iron shorted, popping loudly and sparking quite brightly in the process, probably because of all the gunk that had accumulated inside its less cleanable interior over the years. That not only made my breaker trip, but also blew the 16 amp main fuse. The UPS kicked in immediately, making a klick and a beep, which felt amazing. That was my first time ever.

As for the second time, see this post.
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[–] 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I had electric outage for 4 hours, nobody in my userbase saw the difference, but I never managed to make my debian detect the outage so I can get a mail about the fact that there is an outage (I'm not always home).

Btw if anyone here knows how detect them outages with ups plugged in with usb on my server it would be amazing !

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    yes I already have it and everything is detected but I can't manage to trigger a bash script for sending mail notification when ups state change, or ups outage event, etc (mail script works fine when simply triggered)

    But thanks I found this page may be useful and more specifically this one, I'll keep these comments updated if I did it ! ╰(▔∀▔)╯

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 day ago

    APC have some instructions accompanying their products, but I didn't want to "bloat" my system with their software, because I'm never far enough away from my equipment. I don't have to rely on the UPS sending commands to the system. But, it's absolutely doable!

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